Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

If you're following our walkthrough, this particular side quest will be one of the easiest you have to undertake in the entire game. Indeed, this side quest will net you some easy experience points while taking advantage of knowledge you likely already garnered while working your way through the early part of the game's main missions. Here's what you have to do. Head to a location called the Mojave Outpost, which is on the southwestern edge of the map, southwest of the town of Primm. You'll need to head there for a few different side quests, so it's a location you're bound to run into sooner or later (it's the NCR outpost with the gigantic statues of men shaking hands in front of it). On the roof of one of the two habitable buildings at the outpost, you'll find a woman named Ghost who you can speak with at length.

Ghost recounts to you the horrors of the Legion, and how the NCR is having a hard time keeping them at bay. She's especially concerned about a town called Nipton. The NCR were expecting messages and supplies running south from Nipton (which is located quite a ways east of this outpost). Ghost wonders if you can check up on the situation in Nipton, and see what the hold-up is all about. Now, if you're following our Walkthrough , then you would have already pushed through Nipton by the time you arrived at the Mojave Outpost, which is good news. When you're there, you should have spoken with an officer of the Legion named Vulpes Inculta. He should be in front of Nipton's town hall. After speaking with him, you'll then gain access to the town hall itself, where plenty of the Legion's dogs, called Legion Mongrels, will attack you in droves. Ghost has requested that you check the town hall, but if you followed our walkthrough, you already have. That means you can finish this side quest up quickly.

If you've already done all of this, as you should have, the you'll be able to tell Ghost straight-away that the condition of Nipton is poor, and just about everyone is dead. The Legion has struck, and the NCR wasn't able to scramble the strength to protect the settlement in time. Naturally, this is very bad news for the NCR. Nonetheless, once you've relayed the unfortunate news to Ghost, you're finished with the side quest. Now you see why it was so easy to complete! Of course, if you haven't visited Nipton for some reason, you'll need to trek eastward across the Wasteland to get there, witness the Legion's atrocities for yourself, and then head back to the Mojave Outpost to report the bad news.